Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-18
STOCK NOTES.
prospects GoOd in Montana for Fine
Grass and Csttlemen in Excellent
Spirits at the Outlook.
Reports From the Territory-stock Cattle
for the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. IN the
City-General Notes.

City-General NOtes.
Good sheep brought fine prices Yester-
day. some extra fine selling at 50 60.
Large and commodious S took pens will
soon be erected at Qbanah by the Fort
worth and Denver.
F. C. Sugg, who has a number of cattle
fat enough for beef, has returned to
headquarters from 3 visit to his ranch.
Up. Arlington, Territory cattlemsn,
wss in Fort Worth yesterday. Seattle
never looked BETTER" is the report he
brings.
4 s. Mckinney of clarendon is in Fort
worth looking after the shipment of a lot
of horses and several herds of cattle to
tine Clarendon ranches.
Just as soon as grass is better in South
west Texas, and cattle get fat enough to
stand shipment, the movementto Pannan-
4 die ranges over the Fort Worth and Den
yer will be immense.
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Judge @. r. Darnen Of Seymour, Bay
Ior county, was in Fort Worth yesterday
talking cattle to some purpose. He says
BAYLOR county cattle were never in such
fine condition as now.
Mr. SWearingen, the well known stock
man from the Panhandle, was in Fort
Worth yesterday, and says grass is fine
and cattle doing well. He thinks 1t will
be thirty days before CRASHED beeVes
will be shipped to market.
The Cattle Grower of Ell Paao says:
"Refrigerators, packing houses, horniand
Glue f8cto. les and ice manufactures in
the southwest are the weapons with
which to break the backbone of the
dressed meat ring of Chicago"
1t is stated that numOer Of the Bur-
ton stock cars are to be used on the
Atchison-G Gulf, between Fort Worth and
Kansas City, in transporting beeVes to
the latter market. 1t is said these cars
are so constructed that cattle suffer very
little from the haul.
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The Niles City, Montana, Journal has
this to say in regard to the
late losses In that Territory
/. "While there is much inquiry for
cattle, our live stock brokers, one and
all, say that 1t is impossible for buyers
and sellers to agree upon prices, on &C
count of the inability of parties to
& ascertain the exact status Of the losses.
This INDIGESTION continues, and sales are
not made, nor Will transfers take place
till the roundup puts things on a sure
basis.
J. S. Turney of Missouri in a recent
number of the Kansas City Live Stock
Record thus answers the following
4 question:
Will you please be kind enough to tell
US the difference, if any, between a
Thoroughbred" and 'EfuIl blood" animal.
wer-Thoroughbred, full blood and
ypuTe bred are all different. Strictly
speaking, thoroughbred is a term
originally applied to the race horse
alone, but now used to designate
animals bred from the best of
blood. Pure bred means an animal
that has been bred pure for generations
on both dam and sires' sides. A full
blood is an animal thai has been graded
up until all the scrub blood has been bred
out, but still has a scrub foundation. A
woods" shOrt-hOrn is full blood, but
not pure bred.
The Cotulls Ledger says: Some weeks
ago MIR. Millett, who owns q large pas
ture some twenty miles or more from
COtulla, sent some hands to remove some
cattle from near lake that was about to
&c dry, for fear they would bog in the mud
in their efforts to get to the water.
Upon investigation the hands found the
lake dry at that time and no danger of
cattle begging, and the idea of remov-
ing them was abandoned. A day
or two later g slight rain fell.
Just enough to wet the mud thorough
ly and put enough water in the mid
die of the lake to tempt the cattle. 1t
was not thought at the time of the rain
thst it was sufficient to cause this, and
no attention was paid TO the place.
Five days ago one of the men
passing near the lake found Ill
head of cattle begged down, 100 of which
were dead. Thus by not being careful of
such places Mr.. Mslett loses $1,000 or
$500 worth of stock. Such 8 calamity